9780852243237 - Human Implications of Scientific Advance (15th) (History of Science: International Conference Proceedings) (4 Ergebnisse)

1st edition. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Edinburgh University Press, 1978. Proceedings of the XVth Int'n Congress of the History of SCience, Edinburgh, 10-19 August,1977 Clean, unmarked copy, binding tight. From the library of Prof. Roger Stuewer, historian of physics, UMN. Due to size or weight, this item may require additional postage for international or priority shipping.

24 × 16 cm, hardcover, iv, 596 pages, text in English, no dust jacket, tekst on spine faded, slightly browned, although in very good condition, see picture. Published as the official proceedings of the XVth International Congress of the History of Science. Contributions include 'Science and Human Values', 'Internal and External Causation of Scientific Ideas', 'International Co-operation and Diffusion in Science', 'Medicine and Industrialisation in History', 'Physics and Metaphysics in the Scientific Revolution', 'Aspects of the History of Thermodynamics', 'Problems of Source Materials in the History of Science', 'Relations between Theories of Heredity and Evolution (18801920)', 'Classification and Systematisation in the Sciences', and 'Cosmology since Newton'. Editor Eric Gray Forbes (19331984) was a historian of science at the University of Edinburgh. 940g.

1st edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dulled and edge-nicked. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 596 pp. : ill. ; 24 cm. Contents; Includes 8 contributions in French, 2 in German. Subjects; Conference. Human implications of scientific advance (Edinburgh) (1977). Science History Congresses. Conference proceedings. 3 Kg.